The Loft
THE LOFT, THE PEAK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140776
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Loft
- Statutory Address:
- THE LOFT, THE PEAK
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140776
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Loft
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LOFT, THE PEAK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE LOFT, THE PEAK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polperro
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2104150832
Details
LANSALLOS THE PEAK, Polperro
SX 2050-2150
6/75 The Loft
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GV II
Net lofts, now store. Circa early C19. Stone rubble with lapped timber weather
boarding on right-hand gable end. Scantle slate roof with gable ends. Rectangular
plan, built into side of rock with 2 storeys to front and 1 storey to rear elevation.
Regular 4-window front. Boarded opening on left with 3 blocked openings on right.
Above, 4 renewed timber boarded openings. All with timber lintels. Right-hand
leaward gable end with double doors on ground floor and plank door in first floor
opening.
Interior not inspected.
Jonathan Couch's manuscript notes describe the loft as "0 sailmakers loft built at
about the beginning of the present century and then 3-stories high, but now only 2."
Information from Mrs S de Burlet.
Couch's manuscript notes were edited in 1871 and published by his son, Thomas Quiller
Couch as The History of Polperro
Listing NGR: SX2104150832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couch, J, History of Polperro (1871),
De Burlet, S, Portrait of Polperro (1977),
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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